Showing posts with label Country Driving. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Country Driving. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Armchair Travel: Driving China

By Dick Jordan

River Town coverPeter Hessler’s River Town:  Two Years On The Yangtze chronicled his stint teaching English to Chinese students in Fuling when he was a Peace Corp volunteer.  Next, with Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China’s Past and Present, he took a long, hard look at China’s move from its ancient past to its modern, frenetic, Almost-A-Capitalist-Country status.  In his newest book, Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory, Hessler puts us in the passenger seat as he does something very few Americans are likely to experience:  Motoring around China.